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Stargate

Yep, you read right. I'm finally calling it done. It feels a bit odd to post a model as a finished project, but my heart and soul has gone into this thing for the last year or so. I have learned so much from modeling it. The funny thing is that if I had to do it all over again now, most of it would probably only take me a week or so.

[Edit2] There seems to be some demand for the OBJ version of this model, so I decided to make a torrent for it since it is close to 140 MB. I'll be seeding it for the next couple of days or so. stargateobj.torrent (Again: right click, save as.)

The OBJ is offered as is, with no guarantees. What Blender's OBJ exporter spat out is what you get.

Great work man. Hehehe, I'm gonna have to wait till I've built my new pc before I can open that blend file - Blender dies on this laptop when I try go out of wireframe. What gfx card you using to work on that?

Great work man. Hehehe, I'm gonna have to wait till I've built my new pc before I can open that blend file - Blender dies on this laptop when I try go out of wireframe. What gfx card you using to work on that?

Also is that model animatable?

Depends on how hood your computer is, lol.

Very nice!!!! Detailed but accurate modelling, you really did a great job.

wow. I am amazed. I have kinda stood by the WIP because it was the only rated thread in that section. 5 stars. I'll be glad to put that in one of my animations I am working on. like, a cameo or something because that is probably one of the most detailed objects I have ever seen.

Great work man. Hehehe, I'm gonna have to wait till I've built my new pc before I can open that blend file - Blender dies on this laptop when I try go out of wireframe. What gfx card you using to work on that?

Also is that model animatable?

Yep, I modeled it with animation in mind. Each chevron has multiple lights that are controlled by a slider on layer 20, and the iris also has a control slider. That way all you have to do is keyframe how on or off the lights are, and how open or shut the iris is. Chevron 7 is the only one that moves in dial sequences, and that only straight up and down, so it didn't get a slider. Neither did the symbol ring, but animating that is just simple rotation IPOs.

My gfx card is Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT AGP 8x. Not the greatest, but I can rotate the model fairly smoothly in solid mode.